Clara Brenner, Rafael Burde

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CreditCreditKara Brodgesell

Sept. 10, 2017

Clara Sophia Loos Brenner and Rafael Mark Burde are to be married Sept. 10 at their home in San Francisco. Rabbi Aubrey Glazer is to officiate.

The bride, 32, is a managing partner for the Urban Innovation Fund, a San Francisco based venture capital firm that invests in start-ups solving city problems. She graduated from N.Y.U. and received an M.B.A. from M.I.T. in Cambridge, Mass.

She is a daughter of Jane E. Loos of Westport Point, Mass., and Joel F. Brenner of South Dartmouth, Mass. The bride’s father is a senior research fellow at M.I.T. Her mother, who is retired, was a sector manager for the East Asia region for the World Bank in Washington.

The groom, 31, is the director of growth operations for the Bay Area’s bike-sharing system, Ford GoBike. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and received a master’s degree in international policy studies from Stanford.

He is a son of Yael T. Horowitz of Johannesburg and the late Charles D. Burde. The groom’s mother is a program manager for the Reimagining Wits Properties Program at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. His father was a practitioner and professor of urban planning and architecture also at the university.

The couple met at a mutual friend’s while observing Yom Kippur in 2015.